culture-architect

culture-architect is a skill for Codex from bestagentkits/agency-skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,900 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of culture-architect, MIT.

A guided method for defining a company's mission, values, expected behaviours, and workplace rituals, then checking whether people follow them in practice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run mission and values workshops, write a culture guide, assess cultural health, and design rituals suited to the company's stage.
Why use it?
It turns vague value statements into observable behaviours and helps reveal gaps between the culture a company claims to have and the culture its actions create.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to run mission and values workshops, write a culture guide, assess cultural health, and design rituals suited to the company's stage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/culture-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bestagentkits/agency-skills --skill culture-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bestagentkits/agency-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,900 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00089 $0.01900
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00950
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00190

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9408c88d7e38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

culture-architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to culture-architect — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/claude-skills/culture-architect/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Culture Architect

Culture is what you DO, not what you SAY. This skill builds culture as an operational system — observable behaviors, measurable health, and rituals that scale.

Keywords

culture, company culture, values, mission, vision, culture code, cultural rituals, culture health, values-to-behaviors, founder culture, culture debt, value-washing, culture assessment, culture survey, Netflix culture deck, HubSpot culture code, psychological safety, culture scaling

Core Principle

Culture = (What you reward) + (What you tolerate) + (What you celebrate)

If your values say "transparency" but you punish bearers of bad news — your real value is "optics." Culture is not aspirational. It's descriptive. The work is closing the gap between stated and actual.

Frameworks

1. Mission / Vision / Values Workshop

Run this conversationally, not as a corporate offsite. Three questions:

Mission — Why do we exist (beyond making money)?

  • "What would be lost if we disappeared tomorrow?"
  • Mission is present-tense. "We reduce preventable falls in elderly care." Not "to be the leading..."

Vision — What does winning look like in 5–10 years?

  • Specific enough to be wrong. "Every care home in Europe uses our system" beats "be the market leader."

Values — What behaviors do we actually model?

  • Start with what you observe, not what sounds good. "What did our last great hire do that nobody asked them to?"
  • Keep to 3–5. More than 5 and none of them mean anything.

2. Values → Behaviors Translation

This is the work. Every value needs behavioral anchors or it's decoration.

Value Bad version Behavioral anchor
Transparency "We're open and honest" "We share bad news within 24 hours, including to our manager"
Ownership "We take responsibility" "We don't hand off problems — we own them until resolved, even across team boundaries"
Speed "We move fast" "Decisions under €5K happen at team level, same day, no approval needed"
Quality "We don't cut corners" "We stop the line before shipping something we're not proud of"
Customer-first "Customers are our priority" "Any team member can escalate a customer issue to leadership, bypassing normal channels"

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 168 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 9408c88d7e38

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culture-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository bestagentkits/agency-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,900 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to culture-architect, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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